PALESTINE VICTORY GROWS GREATER.
18,000 PRISONERS CAPTURED, NAZARETH, NABLUS AND SAMARIA IN BRITISH HANDS. WHOLE OF THE TURKISH ARMY IN AREA SHATTERED. AUSTRALIAN HORSEMEN TAKE TOWN AND 4000 MEN. Australian and N.Z. (Received 1.40 a.m.) LONDON, September 22. Mr. W. T. Massey, writing from Palestine on Saturday, states Sir Edmund Allenby's victory grows greater every day. Nazareth, Nablus, Samaria, Beisan and Jenin, have been occupied. The cavalry captured an enormous number of prisoners. The total counted is 18,000, and thousands more hare been taken. The Australian Mounted Division captured Jenin and over 40tu prisoners. One brigade charged the trenches brilliantly, using their swords for the first time. The Turkish Palestine army is shattered.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16962, 23 September 1918, Page 6
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